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The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
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These Regulations further amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987.
Regulation 2 revokes regulations which disapplied the requirements concerning national insurance numbers imposed on persons claiming housing benefit by section 1 of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992.
Regulation 3 increases the sum deducted from a person’s earnings in respect of child care costs.
Regulation 4 amends the provisions for the treatment of child care charges. The period over which child care charges are calculable is extended by 3 years or, in the case of a disabled person, 4 years. There is a new definition of a “disabled person”.
Regulations 5 and 6 change the way in which income and earnings are disregarded in respect of those people who are responsible for children or who are disabled and, in either case, are working 30 hours a week or more. In particular, they replace the existing disregard of family credit and disability working allowance with a disregard of earnings.
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